Queen Of Soul Aretha Franklin is “gravely ill,” according to numerous reports. The news was first reported last night by Showbiz 411, and confirmed this morning by Detroit morning news anchor Evrod Cassimy, who tweeted:

The first time I played Okami, I didn’t get it. It was a much-ballyhooed effort from a dream team of Japanese game designers, a sprawling RPG with a vibrant, hand-painted art style. Ambition radiated off the project. But it didn’t sell well upon its release in 2006. It was long—its story ambling along, one climax…

Because it is a dark totem that people throughout our great land have felt the compulsion to destroy, Donald Trump’s star has been voted to be permanently removed from the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. The news came via West Hollywood mayor John Duran’s Twitter account, which stated, “West Hollywood City council unanimously…

After a string of warped teasers appeared in major cities around the world, in addition to a characteristically impossible-to-parse press release, Aphex Twin has announced his new EP, Collapse. We might’ve had this information last night, when Adult Swim was scheduled to air his new video “T69 Collapse,” but it didn’t…

Last night’s Who Is America? featured a few low points for the baby series, but its most attention-grabbing segment was when Sacha Baron Cohen got racist shitbag Joe Arpaio to tacitly yearn for a blowjob from fellow racist shitbag Donald Trump. That’s a headline-grabbing stunt, facilitated by Baron Cohen’s new…

Jon Hamm and Ray Romano are both funny, talented people, but they are also both above the age of 40, which means one thing: they play golf. And since they are famous, they play golf together. (This is how the world works.) A few months ago, Hamm was on The Tonight Show, where he displayed some of his low-key but…

Nico largely endures in the popular imagination for her work with the Velvet Underground, an unhappy marriage arranged by Andy Warhol in part for the model’s aesthetic virtues, the contrast she cut against the scuzzy band. On 1967’s The Velvet Underground & Nico and the same year’s solo debut Chelsea Girl, she plays…

The Hobbit movies are bad, by any stretch of the imagination. A decade after creating one of the great film epics in the tripartite Lord Of The Rings, Peter Jackson decided to give Middle-earth another go, this time using a slim all-ages novel as his source material. The director tried like hell to muster the…